转喻与语义—语用之间的连续体

Metonymy and semantics-pragmatics continuum

潜藏在修辞手段(比如隐喻与转喻)内的认知机制可以解释语义传统化(conventional-ization)的不同程度,这种传统化程度的不同产生一系列与语义—语用连续体有关的各种语言现象;创造性的语用表达可以在关联理论的框架内解决,语用是语言的创造性使用。由于传统化的不同程度,转喻有不同的非直义程度,话语一端是在各种语境下意义都唯一的直义句,另一端是一次性(one-off)、创造性(creative)的非直义句。

This article seeks to explore the cognitive mechanism inherent in certain figures of speech （ e. g. metaphor or metonymy） assuming various degrees of conventionalization, which leads to a range of phenomena relative to semantics/pragmatics continuum. Creative, one-off metonymic expressions can be accounted for within the framework of relevance theory. Metonymy is thought to be a variety of the creative use of language. The degrees of conventionalization determines the continuum of a given metonymy, along which one end is fully semanticized, and the other end is one-off, creative non-literal utterance.